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Mexico's Pena Nieto, seeking wide reforms, wants to limit power of governors
Barely a quarter-century ago, Mexico's all-powerful presidents could run any of the nation's 31 governors out of office at will.
7 hrs ago | Milwaukee Courier Online
Malcolm X's grandson killed in Mexico
His troubles began in 1997, when at age 12 he plead guilty to setting fire to the apartment of his grandmother, Betty Shabazz, that resulted in her death in New York.
12 hrs ago | The Miami Herald
In Mexico, fears for democracy as threatened journalists curtail coverage
Quitze Fernandez, a columnist for the El Guardian newspaper in this capital of Coahuila state abutting Texas, picked up the phone in his newsroom one day.
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Mexico has new plan to tackle drug violence
A Mexican general took over all police and military operations in a chaotic western state on Thursday in a test run of President Enrique Pena Nieto's new security strategy to tame raging drug violence.
18 hrs ago | The Atlantic
The Ethics of Extreme Porn: Is Some Sex Wrong Even Among Consenting Adults?
In " What Do You Desire ?" Emily Witt travels to San Francisco, attends a shoot for a pornographic video about "women bound, stripped, and punished in public," reflects on her own unsuccessful search for romantic love, and ponders the implications of a sexual culture where no desire is considered off-limits so long as all participants give their ... (more)
22 hrs ago | Star-Telegram.com
New City Express van available in fall 2014
In a new collaboration with General Motors, Nissan will produce a version of its NV200 small commercial van that GM will sell as the Chevrolet City Express in the United States and Canada, the two automakers said this week.
Few convictions for Mexicos special prosecutor for crimes against journalists
The adjectives pile up as top editors, writers and free press advocates level their aim at the division of the Attorney General’s Office in Mexico responsible for prosecuting crimes against journalists.
Scandals: Mexican Official Fired After Daughter Had a Restaurant Closed by Health Dept.
A senior government official in Mexico was fired after his daughter abused his position to have a Mexico City restaurant shut down by health inspectors when she was denied a table.
Murder of Mexican reporter in Veracruz spotlights official hostility toward press
Regina Martinez had a premonition that she was courting danger in the months before her death.
Tale of Mexican drug violence rattles Cannes
The Cannes Film Festival has had its first shock to the system, in the shape of Mexican director Amat Escalante's unsparingly violent drug war drama "Heli." The story of the devastation wreaked by narco-violence on an ordinary Mexican family, the movie paints such a bleak picture that one journalist told its director Thursday that she had cancelled ... (more)
Bracing for an eruption in Mexico
After an eruption overnight, residents in a town some 50 miles -- or 80 kilometers -- outside Mexico City brace for a major eruption.
19th Edition of MITM Americas Readies for Guadalajara, Mexico
The 19th edition of MITM Americas, Meetings and Incentive Travel Market, will take place in the city of Guadalajara, Mexico from October 2-4 2013, sponsored by Guadalajara's Convention Bureau.
Life on a deadly border, photos from Texas and Mexico
Photographer Eric Thayer traveled to Brooks County, Texas and Reynosa, Mexico to investigate the rising rates of immigrant deaths along the border there, spending time at a migrant's hostel in Mexico and with U.S. Border Patrol in Brooks County.
Mexico fires official in flap over influence abuse
The Mexican government has fired an official whose daughter sent inspectors to shut down a restaurant that didn't give her the table she wanted.
First tropical depression of Pacific season forms
The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said the depression formed Wednesday.
Two men arrested in murder of Malcolm X's grandson
Authorities in Mexico City have arrested two men on suspicion of the fatal beating of the grandson of U.S. civil rights activist Malcolm X in a bar last week and are looking for at least two more people, Mexico City Attorney General Rodolfo Rios said on Monday.
Popocatepetl volcano in Mexico looks ready to blow: Officials poised to evacuate thousands
Thousands of people living in the shadow of this looming Mexican volcano have been placed on high alert following a dramatic increase in seismic activity from the Popocatepetl crater.
Authorities arrest 2 men in robbery, machete attack that wounded 3 campers in western Mexico
Prosecutors in western Mexico have arrested two men in a vicious machete attack on a group of campers that wounded three people.
FBI Casts Wide Net over Mexican Drug Cartel That Stretches to Arkansas
Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas and Randall C. Coleman, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Little Rock Field Office announced that a 25-count indictment handed down by a federal grand jury on May 2, 2013, was unsealed today charging sixteen defendants in Arkansas, Texas, ... (more)
Sprawl threatens unguarded Maya ruins
Construction crews have flattened what was known as Nohmul, or the, 'Great Mound,' a Mayan temple dating back more than a millennia and one of Belize's most important archaeological sites.